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Gold Coast, QLD, AU

Goldcoast, Australia

• I don't like Cricket,...I love it, and watch a lot of it. I am responsible for the technical delivery of our smart cricket ball, progressing the Smartball through development, manufacture, trials, certification, and.
• Relationship management with the Kookaburra engineering and testing team.
• Daily management, mentoring, and career development to the engineering team members.
• Internal technical authority across all aspects of the company's products' design, engineering, and user requirements.
• Setup and management of high-density, high-impact PCBA assembly and test with multiple external PCB houses.
• Full drafting and successful submission for a $ 1 million matched funded Federal Acceleration Commercialising grant, including full documentation, project plans, resource plan, budgets, manufacturing plant.

Brisbane, Australia

Tritium is the world leader in DC high power charging for Electric Vehicles, with products ranging from 50KW to 500KW charging stations, shipped worldwide.At Tritium I led the product definition and technical specification for our domestic charging range of products. I worked with key stakeholders to create product requirements and turn into technical.

Brisbane, Australia

The Arc Hardware Incubator is a collaborative work environment in Brisbane for start ups who are bringing a hardware product to market, the first of its kind in Australia. The space offers a range of cutting edge prototyping equipment and experienced staff for members to utilise. In addition we run a series of programs to complement the existing start-up.

Gold Coast, Queensland

Jetson Industries combines the latest in IoT technology and online gaming with traditional sports to deliver a whole new experience to the world’s favourite past times. Our flagship innovation features the latest in movement sensor and wireless data technology. It offers multiple sports the opportunity to record information such as ball speed, position and.

Gold Coast

I developed and delivered a module on the Industrial Engineering program teaching students how to develop a hardware product and take to market. I covered aspects such as basic electronics through to design for manufacture, product compliance, certification, fundraising options, hardware accelerators and typical routes to market.I also provide lectures on.

Northern Ireland / Brisbane

Inventshed are a group of design thinkers, technical experts and production engineers who have formed a design and engineering consultancy, particularly aimed at start-ups and SMEs. We offer a range of development services, from research of initial problem area to managing final manufacture setup, through a process of mentoring and doing. My specialism.

Hayes, West London

Central Research Laboratory is a hardware accelerator based in West London supporting teams at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey – from industrial design to user research, raising investment and manufacturing operations. Our prototyping workshop, mentoring programme, workspace and in-house expertise are tailored to the needs of hardware.

Belfast

The Brewbot is a beer-brewing robot that is monitored and controlled by a smartphone, it provides a controlled environment that frees up the brewer to focus on the ingredients. Recipe management is built right into the appliance which uses sensors to accurately control temperatures and timing. I grew the engineering effort from scratch, building out the.

Portadown, Northern Ireland

GDC is the holding company for some of the best known brands in the heating industry, including Dimplex, Creda NOBO, Faber, Robinson Willey, Valor, Glen, Unidare, Sunhouse and Winterwarm. It is a subsidiary of the privately owned Glen Dimplex Group, which operates from Southern Ireland. The Glen Dimplex Group has over 40 companies worldwide, employing over.

Bethnal Green, London

I was one of the three founders of DIY Kyoto, starting up the company in October 2004, with the goal to provide people with the tools to make positive decisions regarding their impact on the environment. Working in a small team I was involved in all of the processes of setting a company up, including business plan writing, developing a product concept.

Bethnal Green, London

DIY KYOTO developed products & services that empowered the individual to make their own positive difference to climate change. We created thoughtfully designed products to help people understand and control their personal impact on the environment. DIY KYOTO valued simple things. From the start, we aimed to produce products of perfect convenience and.

Silicon Roundabout, London

Energeno Limited provides technology and services to help energy users maximise their return from investing in renewable energy systems. These include energy monitoring solutions and automatic switching devices to enable consumers to use free electricity they have generated in preference to feeding it into the grid.Energeno’s mission is to offer a.

Kensington, London

IDE is a world leading post graduate design course split between The Royal college of Art and Imperial College in London. It is particularly aimed at graduates with more technical backgrounds, with the intention to provide them with an intense project based learning experience in design and innovation.I provided design and particularly technical tuition.

London, United Kingdom

I was visiting tutor for two years on both the Industrial Design and Textile Futures courses at CSM. I provided technical expertise and experience to aid students with any technical requirements for their projects. I also ran short courses on electronic prototyping and physial computing.

San Francisco, New York, London

Through my various roles I have had the opportunity to work on many different consultancy projects for clients of different sizes, with a focus on interactive installations and physical prototyping. I utilised various hardware platforms including BX24, Basic Stamp, PICs, and Arduinos. I can design and build my own PCBs if necesary and am able to interaface.

San Francisco, California

IDEO is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow. IDEO identify new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviours, and desires. They envision new companies and brands, and design the products, services.

Malmesbury, Wiltshire

I was one of the first employees of Dyson Research (no 12), working on the development of the next generation of high speed, brushless motors, which are now ubiquitous across Dyson products. I delivered the PCB design, which incorporated high voltage, high capacitance switching and low voltage control electronics. I met with vendors and suppliers of.

Wokingham

Electronic design, prototyping and debugging of PCBs primarily for the low cost toy industry. Lots of hands on building and testing of prototypes within a small friendly team of engineers. I honed my electronic fabrication and debugging skills on this internship, learning from some very talented colleagues. It also exposed me to consultancy and the world.

PCB assembly, testing and debugging.

Masters, Diploma Of Imperial College, Industrial Design Engineering

Master Of Design, Industrial Design Engineering

B.Eng 1St, Electronic Engineering, 1St

Education record

Education record

Education record

Education record

Education record

Master Of Arts - Ma, Industrial Design Engineering

Master Of Arts - Ma, Industrial Design Engineering, Distinction